Abstract
Slowly, from about 1100 onward, the Rogation Days waned. Multiple causes contributed to the holiday’s senescence: its lack of apostolic authority, competition from new holidays such as Corpus Christi, and fear of abuses. But perhaps the most important was the systemization of the parish and, with it, the exaltation of a different symbol of the community: the Eucharistic host. This new model for church organization gradually supplanted the ritually defined communities of the early Middle Ages. Contemporary paradigms of Christianization, which treat Christianity as a fixed system of doctrines and practices, continue to impose later norms on early medieval people. The early medieval Rogation Days were Christianization before religion.
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